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To: PetroniusMaximus
Your postulation 2 second comings???

By definition there can only be one second coming. (Although, come to think of it the dispenationalists have multiple "last trumpets".)

However, not all comings of Christ are the second coming.

"Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." (Matt. 16:28)

The one and only second coming is the personal, visible coming of Christ at the end of the age.

281 posted on 04/04/2007 8:16:31 PM PDT by topcat54
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To: topcat54
“By definition there can only be one second coming.”

So you’ve got a 1/2 coming and then a 2nd coming??? ;-)

Where is the post in which you spell out this position?



“However, not all comings of Christ are the second coming”

The Matt 16:28 was, contextually speaking, immediately fulfilled by the transfiguration. The verb Erchomai (coming) also give the idea of making an appearance, shewing yourself - not just to coming from a distance.



“The one and only second coming is the personal, visible coming of Christ at the end of the age.”

True, and do you think that the passage we referred to earlier (in Thes) where Jesus destroys the man of sin refers to the visible second coming at the end of the age?

302 posted on 04/05/2007 11:00:09 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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